Bluffton University football players and other athletes made 500 sandbags on Thursday afternoon at the EMS garage in anticipation of more rain this weekend.
To celebrate Teen Tech Week, Bluffton Public Library will host a free book discussion for teens in grades 6-12. Copies of the book Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld are available at the library and any teen wishing to participate will be allowed to keep the book if they attend the discussion at the library on March 12 at 10 a.m.
Brunch will be provided at the discussion and all participants are encouraged to stay and enjoy the following Steampunk Awareness Day activities.
Betty Mae Mumper, 90, of Bluffton died at 5:15 a.m. March 3, 2011, at Richland Manor, Bluffton. She was born Oct. 5, 1920 in Hamler to Jess and Wealtha Pacey Bundy. On Oct. 1, 1936 she married Virgil F. Mumper and he preceded her in death on August 12, 1981.
Mrs. Mumper was a homemaker and had worked 13 years at Marimor. She was a member of Riley Creek Baptist Church, Bluffton. She was a member of the Bluffton Senior Citizens and its Golden Swingers Band and had been a member of the Hammond Organ Club.
FRIDAY 1 P.M. UPDATE: Three hundred additional sand bags are being created as this story is being posted. With the estimated 500 bags made on Thursday and today's 300 bags, in all 1,800 sandbags have been made since Fe. 27.
Most of the bags are already distributed and in place. Now comes the difficult part: waiting out the weather.
THURSDAY 10:30 P.M. UPDATE: Volunteers are needed at 10 a.m. on Friday morning at the EMS garage at the corner of Washington and Thurman streets, according to Rick Skillier, Bluffton police chief.
